The Making of a Sailor / Or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger

by Frederick Pease Harlow

Book Overview

Exciting firsthand account of sailor's life in the 1870s: working the ship in rough weather, pleasures of shore leave, exotic lands and native girls, more. Enhanced with period illustrations of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486256138
• ISBN13: 9780486256139
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful story of life at sea

This is the best description of the hard life of an American sailor in the 1870s. Harlow, from New England, describes his first coastal voyage on a schooner, down the coast and up the Chesapeake and the Potomac. Then he tells of his long voyage to Australia on a square rigger. The book is fascinating and easy to read even if you don't fully understand all the nautical terms. It is well documented with sea chanteys, pictures and explanatory footnotes.